Новости за 04.10.2015

Arsenal thrashed Manchester United 3-0 on Sunday after a pulsating first-half display to climb above them into second place in the Premier League on goal difference. They stunned Louis van Gaal’s side, who had been top before the weekend, by scoring three times in the first 20 minutes through Alexis Sanchez (two) and Mesut Ozil. […]

Russia is engaged in “classic asymmetric warfare” in Syria by propping up President Bashar al-Assad while saying it is attacking Islamic State militants, Britain’s foreign minister said on Sunday. “It looks like a classic bit of Russian asymmetric warfare – you have a strong propaganda message that says you’re doing one thing while in fact […]

As World Day for Animals was marked on Sunday with environmental and animal welfare organisations renewing their calls to the state to fulfill promises to formulate policies to control the situation in Cyprus. The Green Party called again for the creation of an animal police unit and stricter penalties for abusers. On Wednesday a man […]

Greece’s coast guard recovered the badly decomposed body of a baby on Sunday on the shore of the island of Kos, a major entry point into the European Union for thousands of migrants and refugees who cross the Aegean Sea from nearby Turkey. The infant, believed to be a boy aged between six months and […]

U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday the Middle East would be more stable if Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were still in power in Libya and Iraq, saying it’s “not even a contest”. Trump mentioned the countries in comparison to current efforts to drive Syrian President Bashar al-Assad out of power. “You […]

Police headquarters on Sunday responded to allegations by the Green Party hinting at vested interests in a probe into the purchase of over 30,000 faulty wooden electricity poles in 2005, saying the investigations were in the final stages. The Green Party said police had been given instructions to investigate the case at the beginning of […]

Cyprus is among 19 EU member states have requested opt-outs for all or part of their territory from cultivation of a Monsanto genetically-modified crop, which is authorised to be grown in the European Union, the European Commission said on Sunday. Agiculture Minister Nicos Kouyialis has repeatedly stated that Cyprus  remaining GM-free zone was “a long […]

By Adam Jourdan A typhoon with winds up to 112 miles an hour lashed China’s south coast on Sunday, killing at least four people and leaving a trail of destruction and flooding as authorities issued the highest “red alert” emergency response. Howling winds and snarling seas whipped up by Typhoon Mujigae caught several fishing vessels […]

Various governments and the EU are studying options for economic support to help fund the costs of a settlement in Cyprus, UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide tweeted on Sunday. Eide has been doing the rounds in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly talking to various countries and international organisations on […]

President Bashar al-Assad said a military campaign by Russia, Syria and its allies will decide the fate of the Middle East, and a year of U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants had only helped the spread of terrorism. In an interview with Iranian television broadcast on Sunday, Assad said if Syria, Russia, Iran and […]

By Guy Faulconbridge and William James Prime Minister David Cameron said his renegotiation of Britain’s ties with the European Union was “bloody hard work” and refused to rule out campaigning for a British exit in a referendum if other EU leaders failed to grant him the concessions he wants. As his ruling Conservative Party gathered […]

Paphos police are investigating a rape reported to them by a 23-year-old Dutch tourist, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Sunday. The woman said when she was walking along Poseidonos Avenue at around 5.30am on Sunday on her way home from a night out, a man rode up on a moped and offered to take […]

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday there was plenty of time and distance to cover yet on the talks so that a solution could be found that was acceptable to both communities. Anastasiades was speaking on the sidelines of a charity event in Nicosia when he was asked to comment on statements reportedly made by […]

By William James British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday that Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin’s decision to take military action in Syria to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was a “terrible mistake”. Russia has begun striking targets in Syria – a dramatic escalation of foreign involvement in the civil war which has been criticised […]

Russian planes have flown 20 sorties in Syria and struck 10 Islamic State targets in the past 24 hours, the country’s defence ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Russia has said it would step up its air strikes in Syria, escalating a military intervention which Moscow launched on Wednesday to weaken Islamic State militants, […]

Ruling DISY said on Sunday that censorship was not the solution to disagreements the Church of Cyprus might have with theologians such as Andreas Pitsillides who was excommunicated on Friday. In a statement, the party said that while it did not wish to intervene in the internal workings of the Church, “at the same time […]

A new poll of Greek Cypriots, released on Sunday,  has found the vast majority favour an end to guarantees, the withdrawal of all Turkish troops and settlers, and the non-equation of ‘current users’ of Greek Cypriot properties with the legal owners. The islandwide poll of 1,000 people was carried out in September for Sigmalive by […]

Emergency services were called out to 29 fires and 16 other incidents in the 24 period ending at 6am on Sunday, the Cyprus News Agency reported. One of the first calls, and the most serious incident, was at a butcher shop in Latsia in Nicosia where a young foreign worker had caught her hand in […]

By Robin Emmott Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a long-awaited trip to Brussels on Sunday, officially a two-day state visit to Belgium, that will be dominated by EU meetings over Europe’s migration crisis and the fight against Islamic State militants in Syria. Moscow’s commencement of bombing raids in Syria could bring Russian warplanes to the […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a German radio station that the emissions scandal around German carmaker Volkswagen was “drastic” but the damage was not so great that Germany was no longer deemed a good place to do business. “I believe the reputation of the German economy and the trust in the German economy has not […]

By Mirwais Harooni and Andrew MacAskill Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres denied that Taliban fighters were firing from its hospital at Afghan and NATO forces before a suspected U.S. air strike killed at least 19 people in a battle to oust the Islamist insurgents from an Afghan city. The northern city of Kunduz has […]

Three men aged 19, 20 and 26, from Larnaca and Dromolaxia have been arrested in connection with an attack on a 22-year-old foreign student on Saturday near Makenzie beach. According to the Police, at around 3:30pm on Saturday the student was walking along when two cars pulled up beside him and three men got out […]

A Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli teenager in Jerusalem on Sunday and was then shot dead by police, authorities said, just hours after a similar assault killed two people in the city. Violence has risen in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank in recent weeks. Though not at the levels of previous Palestinian […]

A father of three young children, Giorgos Hadjigeorgiou, 35, from Paralimni was killed in an accident on his motorcycle in the early hours of Sunday near the Larnaca marina, the Cyprus News Agency reported. Citing police, it said that around 3.30am Hadjigeorgiou was driving along Makarios Avenue towards the marina when he collided with a […]

Flooding caused by torrential rain along part of the French Riviera has killed least 13 people, officials said Sunday. The downpour hit the Alpes-Maritimes region, which lies at the eastern end of France’s Mediterranean coast and borders Italy, on Saturday evening. Eight people have been found dead and another five are missing, the government’s local […]